Annie Wallace

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When you're getting worked up about the Wizard Woman's "essays" (ie. her toxic obsessions), just remember - she wrote kids books about witches and wizards - she's well-versed in derivative fiction.

Thread on how far Glinner has fallen down his own particular rabbit hole, and how those that still support him are effectively supporting his racism as well as his transphobia.

The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

Evoking Ivor Wood, The Tiny Angry Witch is the best thing to hit animation for years. This is ART, and bloody funny too. It needs picking up by a production company and money thrown at it. Stop-motion animators like this, Clangers, Tiny Chef, Aardman and Laika should be protected at all costs.

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Looks like I'd better not get seriously ill, or get involved in a car or pedestrian incident. Hospitals are now unsafe places for me. The bigots created this, and the labour party rolled over and let them.

I feel kind of sorry for Big Brother's Philip Regan; 'The Queen of Scotty Road'. No doubt he thought the show would increase his reach and expand his career, but it's kind of backfired, really. Previously known as a fun figure on social media, Philip made many (many!) videos of himself...

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However, far more damaging is his 'identifying as a fridge' comment. This reveals more than maybe he wanted to about his attitude to trans people. As Danny Beard said on the Big Brother Group Chat show, Philip can 'get in the bin'. Bearing in mind that Philip's options aren't shared by the ...

majority of under-30's, I wish him good luck trying to get booked for events after this. He's apparently in the Liverpool panto this year, though (!) We'll see how it goes after he leaves the Big Brother house. Like I said, I feel a bit sorry for him. He could have done so much better.

walking around Liverpool, delivering his catchphrase, all pretty much the same. He was popular initially, but some of his rather awful opinions have really dented his image. I'm 8 years older than Philip, and I, too, resisted the use of 'queer' as a descriptive term for the LGBTQ+ community...

Like Philip, I lived through the times when it was a terrible slur, and didn't like how it was now 'reclaimed'. But, unlike Philip, I move with the times, and it's now a positive umbrella term for our fabulous, diverse community, so I use it now as well. The past is the past.

Oh look. A whole programme on BBC1 about men taking testosterone . Gender affirming care, approved, promoted and rubber stamped. Trans people just don't stand a chance these days.

Question: When Trump is gone, what do we do with the MAGA cult? They're not going to just evaporate. In fact, without their Glorious Leader, and his ICE/Police/National Guard to protect his ideology, they might just get even more violent and abusive. What then? Surely some kind of political ...

... initiative has to be undertaken to ensure that this kind of national takeover can never happen again, from any cult, blue or red. Certainly a limiting of undemocratic Presidential powers is the first step, but the nazi-esque populist movement is something else. It worries me, even as a Brit.

theguardian.com‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as maleParents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed

Slow clap to this country's sex-obsessed, officious, anti-human registration system that serves nobody.

Wretched Jester Fuckup@jackalpants.bsky.social

Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.

bbc.co.ukUS removes all bombers from RAF Fairford back to home stationsNo reason has been given for the withdrawal, but it follows a major incident last week when police were alerted to "suspicious vehicles" near the airbase.

Bonus. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I'm a classic old school Conservative", says Kemi Badenoch. No you're not, you insane woman. No UK government prior to 2024 formally proposed or adopted a policy to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Although Winston Churchill had reservation in its scope, the convention was ...

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... drafted and signed the convention. The notion that some far-far-right version of the Conservative party should now ACTIVELY pursue our withdrawal from it because more asylum seekers are entering the country, (largely due to the removal of the Dublin agreement after the ruinous Brexit),

... is not "old school Conservatism". It's is neo-nazi policy making, and the legal minds that inhabit the Tory party should be making it plain that this not only a dreadful, dreadful notion, it is quite probably impossible to do so without directly affecting foreign policy legislation since 1953.

... ratified on his watch. Before the rise of the far-right in 2024, the notion of leaving the ECHR was regarded as a crank desire, only pursued by those who had the greatest amount to gain by the removal of the ECHR's human rights. The UK was one of the 12 members of the Council of Europe who ...

So, there's no TARDIS set any more. The Bad Wolf studios aren't going to be used for any new Who in the future, there's no cast, no scripts, no plan and no base. Just about as grim as it could be, because the sheer cost of starting all of this up again from scratch is going to be huge.

Well Big Brother, you've really blown it this series… It's not entertaining, it's stressful, confrontational, and aggressive. I can't watch that, on a day by day basis.

Pleased to see Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual assault. Hopefully, this will give his many victims some peace of mind that he'll probably end his days in there.

15 Sept

I could not be happier for Kate O'Flynn winning the Emmy last night. A Bury lass who went to RADA, she first made a big impact on the screen in Bridget Jones's baby as the eponymous heroine's spiky boss, but absolutely stole the show in Channel 4's Everyone Else Burns. Brilliant!

"Penda's Fen". That's 90 minutes I'll never get back.

This vacuous idiot thinks that housing benefit cuts won't make people homeless.

When the Tories (aided and abetted by the never-forgiven LibDems) slashed housing benefits when they got into power in 2010, the amount of homeless people shot up, most visible to the person on the street by the increase in rough sleeping.

This is statistically proven. The idiot also thinks people can just "move somewhere cheaper", when rents are at an all-time high, incomes have virtually stagnated, and social housing at an all-time low. It's amazing she knows which shoes to put on which feet in the morning.

Actual, verifiable electoral bribery. When does the law start to apply to this shitgibbon?

The signs were always there.

the pickwicker man@pickwick.bsky.social

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Being 500 miles away, is exactly where I'd to see the Proclaimers right now. Which, for the UK, is most likely to be in the sea.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social

So this is where the Proclaimers are at now

9 Sept

The Proclaimers being stinking transphobes is a flex I didn't expect this year, but there you go. Sad. And stupid.

5 Sept

Soooo.... old ladies protesting about Gaza get arrested and charged... climate protesters get arrested and charged... and masked, black-clad pseudo-paramilitary fascists blocking the port of Dover are just left to get on with it, unhindered by the police. Right, just so we're clear on this, yeah?

4 Sept

I'm so old I remember when IDE replaced ST506/ST412 ribbon cables. We also used to call hard drives Winchesters. Just sayin' 🤣

4 Sept

Re: Reform. Did you really expect a nasty, far-right authoritarian anti-human rights party of liars, shysters and the worst ex-Tories to just hold their hands up and go "Fair cop!" Denying everything is what the accused always do.

2 Sept

Gerard McCarthy is 45 years old. Maureen Lipman has told him to "grow up" because he doesn't want to appear in a play with her because of her political statements. This is called principles. The same principles that Lipman used to resign, multiple times, from the Labour party. 1/

2 Sept

Lipman also has a history of supporting transphobes, including the wizarding woman. To that end, actress Iz Hesketh has also withdrawn from the production. Lipman is a well-paid, regularly working 80 year-old Dame, who regularly has her opinions platformed in the mainstream media. 2/

2 Sept

The fact that these two actors are willing to sacrifice work for their moral convictions speaks volumes on the subject. One only wishes that Maureen had the decency to respect their consciences in the same way that she demands everybody else has for hers . 3/

31 Aug

Translation: Political party which drove the country into the ground over 14 years and is now relegated to the wilderness swaps some jobs around for kicks.

28 Aug

With endless Call of Duty titles, and the increasing sidelining of campaigns for multiplayer... why can't we have another... Splinter Cell Ghost Recon Far Cry Portal Uncharted Watch Dogs Hitman ???

25 Aug

So pleased to see such an outpouring of love for Dolly Parton. In fact, anyone who takes the opportunity, at this sad time, to criticise her in any way, marks themselves as a prize pillock. She was a model human.

20 Aug

I'm not remotely interested what Harry and Meghan are up to. I have no feelings about them either way, and it absolutely astonishes me that there seems to be a lot of people out there who do. Leading news stories, newspaper headlines… it absolutely beggars belief.

20 Aug

I LOVE this!

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